Telephone-receiver attachment.



l G. s. MQGOMB. TELEPHONE RECEIVER ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED DEU. 27, 1909.

Patented Ju1y`5, 1910.

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M m daye 4 Jfnj at@ GEORGE S. MGCOMB, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

Speciication of Letters Patent. Application tiled December 27, 1909. Serial No.

TELEPHONE-RECEIVER ATTACHMENT.

Patented July 5, 1910. 535,192.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that-I, GEORGE S. McCoMB, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Telephone Receiver Attachments, of which the following is a specification.'

This invention relates to devices for holding and supporting telephone receivers.

It is the object of this invention to provide a receiver-holding device which is attachable to most telephones now in use, and which is designed for the purpose of holding the receiver to the ear of the person using the phone.

A further object is to provide means which will eliminate the necessity of a person holding the receiver while talking in the transmitter or mouth-piece of a telephone; and to thus leave the hands free to write, or for other purposes.

Another object is to provide a receiverholder which is sim'ple in construction, and

The inner or securing end A is adapted to be engaged by the thumb-nut 2,'

which is easily and readily applied, or detached.

The invention consists of the parts, and the combination and construction of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, reference being had` to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention as applied. Fig. 2 is a plan View of same. Fig. 3 is a detail of the attaching end of the wire 6.

In the drawings, the receiver-holding device is shown as formed out ot a single piece ot wire, the wire being bent and shaped to the required,fo1'm iu any desired manner. ot the device,

threat; ed upon the bolt 3, which isthe pivotal support of the transmitter 4, and mouth-piece 4 of a telephone. The vertically disposed portion A of the device is placed between the inner side of the nut 2, and the yoke 5, and by screwing the nut on the bolt 3 tight against the portion A, the device is securely held at this point. The

port-ion ot' the wire contiguous to the vertical portion A is bent at right angles at (i, and extends on a horizontal plane, as shown at'y 7, and again bent so as to extend across Vupon the mouthpiece 4 and restV upon the mouthpiece 4', and in front of the part 4 of the transmitter. The portion 8 extending across the front of the transmitter may be so scalloped or curved as to t the curvature of the mouth-piece 4. A portion of the wire is then bent at an obtuse angle in relation to the part 8, and extends outwardly, as shown, a distance of about six inches, forming a supporting arm or bracket 9, from which it is curved upward and then doubled back to form a semicircular loop 10, in which the outer end of a receiver, indicated at 11, is adapted to be sup orted. The wire is then bent at right anges to the semi-loop l0, as at 12, and extends backward approximately the length of the receiver 11, and is then bent at 13, and terminates in a curved portion 14, parallel with the semi-loop 10, the curved portion 14 being adapted to support the rear end of the receiver 11. r

In operation, the device is secured to the telephone by the nut 2, and is supported as before described;

the outwardly extending portion 9 projecting at an approximately rightA angle to the front of the transmitter 4, and in such position that when the receiver l1 is lplaced upon the supporting loops or on the outer portion of the bracket 9, it will be contiguous to the ear of a person speaking into the mouthpiece 4.

By the employment of this device, the user of a telephone will have both hands free and be relieved of the task of holding the receiver by hand, when engaged in lengthy conversations.

It is obvious that the device can be attac-hed to the telephone in any suitable manner, where the nut 2 is not used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to ent is` 1. The combination in a telephone receiver, of an arm having segmental bearing members at one end, said arm having means at its opposite end to secure it to the transmitter, and an intermediate portion bent substantially at right angles and crossing above the transmitter and adapted l to rest and be supported upon the same.

2. The combination with a telephone transmitter, otan arm, means by which said members 10-14 arm is secured at one end to the transmitter, my hund in the presence of two subscribing bent segments at the oppositehend to fsulllowitnesses. port a receiver contiguous to t e ear o t e 1 o l i person speaking, and an arched intermediate I GIOhL'L b' MQ'LOMB 5 portion l crossing and resting upon the mouthpiece of the transmitter. n In testimony whereof I havefhereunto set Witnesses: l

WM. H. CAMPBELL, J. J. SwnnNEY. 

